On Dec 21, 2007 10:49 AM, Jorge Llambías <
jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> > lo nu cirla zbasu cu du'i gi selylarcu gi selsaske
> > Cheesmaking is equally an art and a science.
>
> (you meant ge for the first gi, but otherwise your answers are functionally
> identical to mine ;-)
No, it's {gi} there. {du'i gi} is a forethought connective like {ge}.
I suffered from two problems here: 1) I didn't notice the "du'i". 2) I have rarely seen the giBAI broda gi brode used (although I see it is in the CLL Chapter 9, section 8 (ex.
8.2, 8.3) I'm not sure how this reads. Is it in fact exactly semantically equivalent to "lo nu cirla zbasu cu selylarcu du'i lo nu selsaske"?
{du'i ge ... gi ...} is also grammatical, but in that case {du'i} works as a
selbri tcita, not a connective, like {na} in {na ge ... gi ... }.